Nutrition: Simple Bitter Melon Dish

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Bitter melon (bitter gourd) is an ugly-looking vegetable with a bitter and peculiar taste. It's said that bitter melon prevents many health problems and diseases such as Type II Diabetes, kidney stones, pancreatic cancer, obesity and high cholesterol.

Most people don't know what to do with it in terms of consumption. Here is a very simple, versatile and complete dish to make using what is at hand in your refrigerater.  This recipe can be experimented with other vegetables and proteins.

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What you'll need (2 servings);

1/2 medium sized bitter melon

10 cherry tomatoes or 1/2 tomato

1 cup  baby spinach leaves

2 Baby Bella (or any kind) mushrooms

2 eggs (optional)

1/4 onion

2-3 cloves garlic

salt & pepper, red pepper flakes (optional)

1 tablespoon cooking oil (any kind)

How to make;

Stir fry all the ingredients(except for eggs) for 4 minutes.

Crack eggs over the stir fried vegetables and cook until eggs are done.